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Beatallica is a parodic band that plays music made from combinations of songs of The Beatles and Metallica. A Beatallica song is typically a blend of a Beatles song and a Metallica song with a related title (e.g. "The Thing That Should Not Let It Be," combining The Beatles' "Let It Be" and Metallica's "The Thing That Should Not Be" or "And Justice for All My Loving" combining Metallica's "And Justice for All" and the Beatles' "All My Loving"), though sometimes just a Beatles song will be used as a basis with modified lyrics. The lyrics slip back and forth between the two songs—occasionally neither in lieu of original lyrics comically referencing Metallica, heavy metal music or the heavy metal community—while the scansion and melody are usually Beatles-based, the music is played metal style with some Metallica riffs and solos thrown in.
One of the more unique bands to perform at Summerfest 2005, Beatallica, takes some time to talk to us backstage before their set. Beatallica is all about playing Beatles songs Metallica style. The boys talk about how the concept came about, their way of marketing themselves, and who really killed John Lennon.
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Umphrey's McGee is a progressive rock / jam band from South Bend, Indiana whose music is often referred to as "progressive improvisation." In July 2004 , the band was declared by Rolling Stone Magazine to "have become odds-on favorites in the next-Phish sweepstakes."[1]
Though the band's approach to their live performances has much in common with Phish and the Grateful Dead (ever-changing setlists, constant improvisation, two sets per night, open-taping policy), they are much more influenced musically by progressive rock bands such as King Crimson, Yes, Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Frank Zappa, and Genesis, as well as heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden. The band also "identifies The Police, The Beatles, The Monkees, Nick D'Virgilio, and Led Zeppelin as primary influences with a reverence the members describe as 'Biblical.'" [2] However, there really isn't a style of popular music that Umphrey's does not cover. Artists covered in concert by Umphrey's range from Lionel Richie to Metallica to Toto to Snoop Dogg to James Taylor to Radiohead.
Not sure what the hell happened here...this is what interviews are like when the interviewer starts drinking 4 hours before the Q&A and participates in steryotipical "jam band like" habbits with North Mississippi Allstars. For the most part this interview is random, sporatic, and at times incoherent, but at the same time, entertaining. It's worth the 9:18 of your life to check it out...I think.
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O.A.R. is an American rock band consisting of Marc Roberge (vocals and guitar), Chris Culos (drums and percussion), Richard On (guitar and vocals), Benj Gershman (bass guitar), and Jerry DePizzo (saxophone, guitar and vocals). Due to massive online distribution over campus networks, the band has become a hit among college students, with many songs relating to the band members' personal lives at Ohio State University and growing up in Rockville, Maryland.
The band was founded in 1996 by Marc Roberge and Chris Culos, who then recruited Richard On and Benj Gershman. The four of them graduated from Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland, then moved to Columbus, Ohio to attend Ohio State University. While at Ohio State, they met Jerry DePizzo, from Youngstown, Ohio.
Without any formal marketing or advertising plans, news of their songs such as "That Was a Crazy Game of Poker," "City on Down" and "Night Shift" spread by word of mouth alone. The band played as many shows as they could, expanding from the fraternities and sororities of Ohio State to any audiences that cared to listen. This exposure paid off; their third album b]'Risen'[/b] debuted at #11 on the Billboard top internet sales chart. The following year, their fourth album Any Time Now debuted at #156 on the Billboard Top 200 list.
On October 5, 2006, a press release declared that O.A.R. had officially sold in excess of 1.2 million albums over their career. The band attributes much of its popularity to the taping and subsequent trading and downloading of their live shows.
Marc Roberge (vocals/guitar) and Jerry DePizzo (saxophone) of O.A.R. (Of A Revolution) chill with us backstage at Summerfest 2005 to talk about their upcoming tour, what it's like to tour with Dave Matthews Band, their Summerfest experience, their forthcoming album, 'Stories Of A Stranger,' their pitiful excuse for moving their Feeling Better Than Everfine festival from it's home in Cleveland to the windy city, and finally explain what their hit song "That Was A Crazy Game Of Poker" is all about.
